“I don’t know how to stop loving you.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“Make me remember what it feels like to be loved.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“Because it shouldn't hurt to be touched.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“I'll be whatever you need me to be.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“I loved her. Oh God… I loved her. She was everything, ripped me apart and made me whole.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“Was it wrong that all I wanted to do was kiss her?
I smiled, and Maggie blushed.
Oh God. So cute.
I knew then, I’d give this girl anything she asked me for. I’d probably beg her to take it.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“I'd lost myself somewhere along the way, and maybe my subconscious was telling me it was time I found that person again, because I sure as hell wasn't happy with who I'd become.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“She's get lost in my words while I'd get lost in those eyes.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“I'd struggled to supply the needs I didn't have the strength to provide, to give him hope when I had none, to give him joy when I had little to share. All I'd have to give him was my love.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“I'd always been willing. But I always fell short, every good intention I ever had never good enough.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“Shifting my dozing child, I gathered him up and carried him to his room where I pulled back his covers and laid him in his bed. A burdened breath escaped his lungs, and he rolled to his side.
So precious and already so damaged.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“Because it shouldn't hurt to be touched”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“My smile was soft as I looked down at the same broken girl who'd captured me, both of us so different yet somehow exactly the same.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
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“I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.”
― Pat Conroy, quote from The Lords of Discipline
“When it was done and I went to sleep, I lay awake and listened to the clock on your nightstand and the wind outside and understood that I was really home, that in bed with you was home, and something that had been getting close in the dark was suddenly gone. It could not stay. It had been banished. It knew how to come back, I was sure of that, but it could not stay and I could really go to sleep. My heart cracked with gratitude. I think it was the first gratitude I’ve ever really known. I lay there beside you and the tears rolled down the sides of my face and onto the pillow. I loved you then and I love you now and I have loved you every second in between. I don’t care if you understand me. Understanding is vastly overrated, but nobody ever gets enough safety. I’ve never forgotten how safe I felt with that thing gone out of the darkness.”
― Stephen King, quote from Lisey's Story
“Wake up, Astrid. Your psychotic criminal is playing with knives. (Sasha)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Dance with the Devil
“I opened the door and went inside, calling "I'm home!" Except that I wasn't, really. Because home meant something else to me now, and had for quite awhile. And he didn't live there anymore.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Twilight
“When someone works for less pay than she can live on — when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently — then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life. The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone else.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, quote from Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
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